MX-19 Beta 3 Feedback

[dolphin_oracle]

I just discovered Settings/NVIDIA X Server Settings which I didn't know was there. In 19b3 when I click on OpenGL/GLX Information it closes the app. So there's something messed up with the legacy 340.170 driver in 19.

I'll try reinstalling using the driver from the test repo and see what happens, but when i tried that one in 18 and rebooted I got the Black Screen of death. Wish me luck, I'm going in...


...well, the one in the test repo (340.107.6 vs. .4 in stable) works. Still no joy re: OpenGL though:

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$ inxi -G
Graphics:  Device-1: NVIDIA GT216M [GeForce GT 230M] driver: nvidia v: 340.107 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: nvidia resolution: 1366x768~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: N/A v: N/A 

/var/log/ddm.log?

[JayM]

ddm.log

Here you go (I have to attach it as it's too long to post in the forum):

[dolphin_oracle]

ddm.logHere you go (I have to attach it as it's too long to post in the forum):

Thank you. How about the /etc/X11/xorg.conf

[JayM]

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# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 418.56


Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Unknown"
    HorizSync       28.0 - 33.0
    VertRefresh     43.0 - 72.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

[dolphin_oracle]

nothing is jumping out at me. the log looks good and the driver is loading. just the output of the inxi is all the looks odd.

[Eadwine Rose]

Seems the HPLIP Toolbox in Settings Manager isn't getting its icon in properly on nuvola (I get a ! in there), just changed to papyrus plain to cross check and it's looking like no icon there either:

hplip.png

[dolphin_oracle]

Tested in Virtualbox with efi.
Live boot defaults to Customise Boot (text menus) requiring user input, but the text on some sections finish below the bottom of the display making it impossible to see the full list of available choices from the third screen onwards. I am fairly certain we will have people and reviewers discover this and either grumble or report it as a negative.

Installed using whole disk and full disk encryption. The installer side notes under encryption claim the password requires an 8 characters minimum length, so I went ahead and tried a simple 1234 (4 characters only) The install went ahead as normal, booted fine and it worked with the 4-character encryption password, so I re-installed using only a 2 character decryption password and it was accepted, kinda defeats the encryption.

Tested Gparted by adding some additional partitions to a 2nd drive I had provisioned for the VM and received multiple superuser authentication prompts after closing Gparted. Should we be suppressing the auto mount feature post gparted usage? I would hate to have to close 20 or so authentication prompts if I had multiple unmounted partitions as do some people I know.

that thing with gparted is pretty irritating. the automount features of Xfce are very aggressive. We do suppress this in the installer.

conceivably we could edit /sbin/gparted to use the same thing we do in the installer. its not pretty but it works.

[dolphin_oracle]

@bpr323

please see this post. you might have missed it.

https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php ... 81#p532681

[dolphin_oracle]

This is what Live USB creator does WRONG in 19b3 (sorry I didn't save the minstall.log on that iteration:

mx usb live creator - options 2.png
mx usb live creator - msdos.png

I'm sorry but I cannot duplicate the bug. I see your output is obviously checked and such, but the code controlling that little switch is extremely simple and works properly here.


here's the log and screenshot of settings from my attempt.

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/usr/local/bin/live-usb-maker gui -N -g -C off --from=/media/dataext/development/build-mx19/64/Remaster/iso-files/MX-19beta-3_x64.iso -t /dev/sdc
        program: live-usb-maker
        started: Sat 12 Oct 2019 11:18:29 AM EDT
        version: 2.41.00 (Thu 06 Jun 2019 12:34:57 AM MDT)
         kernel: 4.19.0-6-amd64
             OS: MX 19beta-3 (patito feo)
      found lib: /usr/local/lib/cli-shell-utils/cli-shell-utils.bash
    lib version: 2.41.02 (Fri 14 Jun 2019 03:13:16 AM MDT)
---------------------------------------------------------------------

Found man page: live-usb-maker.1
Will use target device /dev/sdc (3.7G SanDisk Cruzer_Glide)
Will use source file /media/dataext/development/build-mx19/64/Remaster/iso-files/MX-19beta-3_x64.iso
Distro: MX-19beta-3_x64 patito feo October 3, 2019
Found grub config 2.0
Estimated extfs overhead for 3768M is 7M

                    Total      Used     Extra
   entire drive  3.73 GiB 3.73 GiB     1 MiB
 main partition  3.68 GiB 1.40 GiB  2.28 GiB
 uefi partition    50 MiB   18 MiB    32 MiB

Ready to make live-usb on device sdc
... by copying file /media/dataext/development/build-mx19/64/Remaster/iso-files/MX-19beta-3_x64.iso

>> partition-clear
 > dd status=none if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc bs=512 count=34
 > dd status=none if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc bs=512 count=34 seek=64
 > dd status=none conv=notrunc if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc bs=512 count=34 seek=7821278
 > partprobe /dev/sdc

>> partition-make
Using gpt partitioning
 > parted --script --align optimal /dev/sdc unit MiB mklabel gpt
 > dd status=none if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc seek=1024 bs=1K count=128
 > parted --script --align optimal /dev/sdc unit MiB mkpart primary 1 3768
 > parted --script --align optimal /dev/sdc unit MiB set 1 legacy_boot on
 > dd status=none if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc seek=3858432 bs=1K count=128
 > parted --script --align optimal /dev/sdc unit MiB mkpart primary 3768 3817
 > parted --script --align optimal /dev/sdc unit MiB set 2 esp on
 > partprobe /dev/sdc
 > wait_for_file /dev/sdc1

>> makefs-bios
 > mkfs.ext4 -O ^64bit -m0 -i100000 -J size=32 /dev/sdc1
mke2fs 1.44.5 (15-Dec-2018)
64-bit filesystem support is not enabled.  The larger fields afforded by this feature enable full-strength checksumming.  Pass -O 64bit to rectify.
Creating filesystem with 964352 4k blocks and 39840 inodes
Filesystem UUID: 2f9b696f-c90b-4af5-a224-540945bfe684
Superblock backups stored on blocks: 
	32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736

Allocating group tables:  0/30     done                            
Writing inode tables:  0/30     done                            
Creating journal (8192 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information:  0/30 2/30     done

 > tune2fs -L MX-Live-usb /dev/sdc1
tune2fs 1.44.5 (15-Dec-2018)
 > wait_for_file /dev/sdc2

>> makefs-uefi
 > mkfs.vfat -n MX-UEFI /dev/sdc2
mkfs.fat 4.1 (2017-01-24)
 > partprobe /dev/sdc
 > wait_for_file /dev/sdc1
 > mkdir -p /run/live-usb-maker/main
 > mount -t ext4 /dev/sdc1 /run/live-usb-maker/main
 > wait_for_file /dev/sdc2
 > mkdir -p /run/live-usb-maker/uefi
 > mount -t vfat /dev/sdc2 /run/live-usb-maker/uefi

Filesystem     Type  Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdc1      ext4  3.7G  7.4M  3.7G   1% /run/live-usb-maker/main
/dev/sdc2      vfat   49M     0   49M   0% /run/live-usb-maker/uefi


>> copy-uefi
copy from iso to uefi partition
files [Ee][Ff][Ii] version
 > cp --no-dereference --preserve=mode,links --recursive /run/live-usb-maker/iso/EFI /run/live-usb-maker/uefi/.
 > cp --no-dereference --preserve=mode,links --recursive /run/live-usb-maker/iso/version /run/live-usb-maker/uefi/.
Fix Dell uefi memtest bug
 > cp /run/live-usb-maker/uefi/EFI/BOOT/grubx64.efi /run/live-usb-maker/uefi/EFI/BOOT/fallback.efi

>> copy-main
 > rm -rf /run/live-usb-maker/main/boot.orig
copy from iso to main partition
vm.dirty_bytes = 20000000
copy /antiX/vmlinuz
 > cpio -pdm --quiet /run/live-usb-maker/main/
 > e4defrag -v ./antiX/vmlinuz
e4defrag 1.44.5 (15-Dec-2018)
ext4 defragmentation for ./antiX/vmlinuz
[1/1][1/1]./antiX/vmlinuz:	  0%[1/1]./antiX/vmlinuz:	100%  extents: 2 -> 1	[ OK ]
 Success:			[1/1]
copy /antiX/initrd.gz
 > cpio -pdm --quiet /run/live-usb-maker/main/
 > e4defrag -v ./antiX/initrd.gz
e4defrag 1.44.5 (15-Dec-2018)
ext4 defragmentation for ./antiX/initrd.gz
[1/1][1/1]./antiX/initrd.gz:	100%  extents: 1 -> 1	[ OK ]
 Success:			[1/1]
copy remaining files ...
 > cpio -pdm --quiet /run/live-usb-maker/main/
copy pids: 11725 11728
vm.dirty_bytes = 20000000
vm.dirty_ratio = 0
 > write_file /run/live-usb-maker/main/made-by-live-usb-maker   created: Sat 12 Oct 2019 11:21:52 AM EDT
  program: live-usb-maker
  version: 2.41.00 (Thu 06 Jun 2019 12:34:57 AM MDT)
 > dd status=none if=/dev/urandom of=/run/live-usb-maker/main/antiX/random-seed bs=512 count=1
 > chmod 600 /run/live-usb-maker/main/antiX/random-seed
 > rm -rf /run/live-usb-maker/main/.disk

>> check-usb-md5
check md5 for initrd.gz
 > md5sum -c initrd.gz.md5
initrd.gz: OK
check md5 for linuxfs
 > md5sum -c linuxfs.md5
linuxfs: OK
check md5 for vmlinuz
 > md5sum -c vmlinuz.md5
vmlinuz: OK

>> uuids
Using antiX/MX grub config 2.0
 > mkdir -p /run/live-usb-maker/uefi/boot/grub
 > cp /run/live-usb-maker/main/boot/grub/config/efi-grub.cfg /run/live-usb-maker/uefi/boot/grub/grub.cfg
 > touch /run/live-usb-maker/main/boot/grub/config/did-efi-grub
 > sed -i /^\s*#/! s/%UUID%/2f9b696f-c90b-4af5-a224-540945bfe684/ /run/live-usb-maker/uefi/boot/grub/grub.cfg
 > touch /run/live-usb-maker/main/boot/grub/config/cb770499540bf6683af8459b112c4166.id
 > sed -i /^\s*#/! s|%ID_FILE%|/boot/grub/config/cb770499540bf6683af8459b112c4166.id| /run/live-usb-maker/uefi/boot/grub/grub.cfg

>> install
extlinux version 6.04
 > dd status=none bs=440 conv=notrunc count=1 if=/usr/lib/syslinux/mbr/gptmbr.bin of=/dev/sdc
 > rm -f /run/live-usb-maker/main/boot/syslinux/chain.c32
 > rm -f /run/live-usb-maker/main/boot/syslinux/gfxboot.c32
 > rm -f /run/live-usb-maker/main/boot/syslinux/ldlinux.c32
 > rm -f /run/live-usb-maker/main/boot/syslinux/libcom32.c32
 > rm -f /run/live-usb-maker/main/boot/syslinux/libmenu.c32
 > rm -f /run/live-usb-maker/main/boot/syslinux/libutil.c32
 > rm -f /run/live-usb-maker/main/boot/syslinux/menu.c32
 > rm -f /run/live-usb-maker/main/boot/syslinux/version
 > cp /usr/lib/syslinux/modules/bios/chain.c32 /run/live-usb-maker/main/boot/syslinux/
 > cp /usr/lib/syslinux/modules/bios/gfxboot.c32 /run/live-usb-maker/main/boot/syslinux/
 > cp /usr/lib/syslinux/modules/bios/vesamenu.c32 /run/live-usb-maker/main/boot/syslinux/
 > cp /usr/lib/syslinux/modules/bios/ldlinux.c32 /run/live-usb-maker/main/boot/syslinux/
 > cp /usr/lib/syslinux/modules/bios/libcom32.c32 /run/live-usb-maker/main/boot/syslinux/
 > cp /usr/lib/syslinux/modules/bios/libmenu.c32 /run/live-usb-maker/main/boot/syslinux/
 > cp /usr/lib/syslinux/modules/bios/libutil.c32 /run/live-usb-maker/main/boot/syslinux/
 > cp /usr/lib/syslinux/modules/bios/linux.c32 /run/live-usb-maker/main/boot/syslinux/
 > cp /usr/lib/syslinux/modules/bios/menu.c32 /run/live-usb-maker/main/boot/syslinux/
 > write_file /run/live-usb-maker/main/boot/syslinux/version 6.04
 > extlinux -i /run/live-usb-maker/main/boot/syslinux
/run/live-usb-maker/main/boot/syslinux is device /dev/sdc1

Filesystem     Type  Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdc1      ext4  3.7G  1.5G  2.3G  39% /run/live-usb-maker/main
/dev/sdc2      vfat   49M  4.2M   45M   9% /run/live-usb-maker/uefi

>> done

live-usb-maker took 3 minutes and 26 seconds.

[JayM]

nothing is jumping out at me. the log looks good and the driver is loading. just the output of the inxi is all the looks odd.

I'll twidget around with it some more tomorrow or the next day and see if I can make it any better or worse. <) Maybe I can come up with an idea of what the issue might be if I thrash around with it some more. Thanks, d_o.